California governor enacts ban on open handgun carrying.

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Gov. Jerry Brown announced early Monday that he had outlawed the open carrying of handguns in public in California, a controversial practice that top law enforcement officials had denounced as dangerous.

Clearing his desk of final bills sent to him by the Legislature, Brown signed the ban into law after it was backed by Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca and other law enforcement officials throughout the state.

“I listened to the California police chiefs,” Brown said in a statement.

Source: Patrick McGreevy and Anthony York for the Los Angeles Times.

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Damn, they were close, too.  That sucks.  :-[

[CMAN]

Now someone needs to sue the state and in their bankrupt condition they will hopefully loose!